The War On Heresy

“Few things could be more unnerving than the spectacle of young, gifted, attractive people insisting on, even glorying in, a terrible death for an utterly incomprehensible cause, ‘like the martyrs of Christ who (for such a different reason!) were once slain by the pagans for the sake of the Christian religion’.” —The War On Heresy, Moore, R. I.

“the accusation of heresy against Stephen and Lisois was a manoeuvre by the supporters of the Blois faction” -Ibid. pg24

жуткая история на стр 49 про то, как Norman peasants protested to Duke Richard II, ну и вообще про Peace of God.

All systems of social organisation are based on rules governing who may or may not sleep with whom, and on what conditions. Changes in those rules are always bitterly contentious and always indicative of profound social or political change. The most important of them determine what constitutes incest – what degrees of kinship are so close as to prohibit marriage. -pg 83

another book by R.I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society [pdf]